Funding

Research

UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies is the only academic
department in the UK dedicated to the study of every aspect and phase of the Jewish
historical experience. This contrasts with the usual setting of Jewish
Studies components within broad subject-areas and disciplinary
frameworks. The integrity of Jewish
Studies as a field of enquiry is implicit in our
constitution as a department, and underpins the disciplinary diversity
that marks our research-activity.

Our research-interests stretch over wide chronological and geographical
spans, entail a range of both ancient and modern languages, and are
pursued from a variety of methodological approaches.

Professor Sacha Stern (Hebrew and Jewish Studies) has been
awarded an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant for a research
project entitled Calendars in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: standardization
and fixation. This grant, to the value of €2,499,000, is the largest ever
achieved in the Faculty. The five-year project was launched on 1 February 2013,
and employs a total of five research associates.